1662. Excellent in perspective. Works: Interior of Palace (1666, figures by H. van Minderhout), Antwerp Museum; Architecture in Biset's William Tell, Brussels Museum; do. of Art Gallery (1671), Hague Museum; do. (1666), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Church Interior (1664), Vienna Museum.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, vi. 515; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 464; Van den Branden, 875.
EHRHARDT, (KARL LUDWIG)
ADOLF, born in Berlin, Nov. 21, 1813.
History painter, pupil in the Düsseldorf
Academy under Schadow (1832); after 1838
assisted Bendemann in decorating the Royal
Palace at Dresden with frescos and became
professor at the Academy in 1846. Works:
Jephthah's Daughter (1836); Christ with
Mary and Martha (1837); Death of the
Troubadour Rudello; Rinaldo and Armida;
Dante's Dream; Charles V. in the Monastery;
Louis the Bavarian with Frederic the
Fair; Luther as Squire
George in Jena (1864),
Leipsic Museum; Resurrection;
Portrait of Ludwig
Richter.—Müller,
155; Wiegmann, 152.
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EHRMANN, FRANÇOIS ÉMILE, born in Strasburg, Sept. 5, 1833. History painter, pupil of Gleyre and of the École des B. Arts, studied two years in Italy, and returned to Paris in 1865. Medals: 1865 and 1868; 3d class, 1874; L. of Honour, 1879. Works: Siren Fishing (1865, burned in Strasburg, 1870); A Conqueror (Luxembourg Museum, copied at the Gobelins); Ariadne abandoned by Theseus (1873), water-colour, Luxembourg Museum; Greece, Rome, The Barbarians, The Middle Ages (1874), M. Girard, Paris; Venus passing before the Sun (1875); The Muses (1877); Republican France leading the Nations to Peace and Industry (1879); The Fates; The Fountain of Youth; Wisdom uniting Art and Industry (1884); The Manuscript (1885).—L'Art (1876), iii. 297; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 259.
EIBNER, FRIEDRICH, born at Hilpotstein,
Palatinate, Feb. 25, 1825, died in
Munich, Nov. 18, 1877. Architecture and
landscape painter, self-taught, principally by
copying after H. Schoenfeld; travelled
through Bavaria (1847), Germany and
France (1852), North Italy (1853-56),
and Spain (1860-61), whither he accompanied
Prince Metschersky, in whose possession
is a valuable series of sixty-five great
water-colour views from Spain. Among his
best works are: Cathedrals of Burgos, Seville,
and Segovia; Palace of Inquisition at
Cordova; Ponte del Paradiso in Venice;
St. Anastasia in Verona; Church of Our
Lady at Esslingen.—Kunst-Chronik, xiii.
178.
EICHHORN, ALBERT, born at Freienwalde
on the Oder, July 7, 1811, died at
Potsdam, Oct. 19, 1851. Architecture and
landscape painter, pupil, in Berlin, of Tempeltei
and Biermann, travelled through Italy
and Greece, settled in Potsdam, and was
much employed by King Frederick William
IV. Works: Views in and about Rome
(1842); Taygetus, Temple of Phigalia (1842);
St. Peter's in Rome; Temple of Corinth;
Temple of Zeus, Road of Patras; City Views
from Italy; The Campagna.—Allgem. d.
Biogr., v. 728; Kunstblatt (1853), 2570.
EICHLER, HERMANN, born in Vienna
in 1842. History painter, pupil of Christian
Ruben, whose studio he entered in 1864.
Works: Charles I. meeting Cromwell after
the Sentence; Peter Hele the Inventor of
Watches; Rudolph II.; Count von Helfenstein
in the Peasants' War; Oberon; In the
Shade of the Bormio; Picnic (1879).—Müller,
156; N. illustr. Zeitg. (1881), i. 339.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVEN,
Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, Mrs. A. T.
Stewart, New York; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. ×
8 ft. At first called Friedland, but finally
named after the date of the battle. Scene—a
ceremonial review of the exhausted victorious
troops after the nine hours' fighting
which made Napoleon dictator of Europe.
The Twelfth Cuirassiers galloping
